Comments on: Wilton Mall; Wilton (Saratoga Springs), New York

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:22:39 +0000

They are having Arts, Crafts and Lifestyle Shows in the Spring and during the holiday season to help draw more crowds to the mall and stores. I still is a very well kept mall and is very clean..

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:51:35 +0000

The carousel is now gone.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:45:48 +0000

also… anyone remember shooters? yeah you know what im talkin about where zummmies is …….what a cool freakin place when the mall was first built it was hot lots of good energy waitresses dancing on tabels

By: bob

bob — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:31:52 +0000

i work in the mall i used to work @bon-shit and yeah if it takes a nose dive i wont shed a tear but this mall is all we have i work for an anchor store i wont say witch one but there is only one worth going to but keep the mall alive please let me make my paycheck

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:27:46 +0000

I remember the Saratoga Mall like the back of my hand. It was the mall I always went to as a child. Stores that M did not mention were Jonathan Reid(later a Bridal store), which had really shaggy red carpets which pretty much made it so you could not touch anything without getting a shock. There was also one of the old style Casual Corners in the mall near Montgomery Ward that had the completely wood facade. There had also been a Mister Movie that was later turned into a Teachers store(I thought it was funny that the old dirty movie section was turned into a little room where kids could play with puzzles). There was a Great American Cookie Company down near Montgomery Ward as well where my mom would always let me have a cookie. Other stores included a liquor store, kinney shoes, fayva shoes, Radio Shack, and a food court with one restaurant, Taco Bell(earlier Odil’s, Home of The One Nacho).

By: M

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:45:17 +0000

Also, might I add that Saratoga Mall was originally called Pyramid Mall. It was rebranded around the time that Wilton Mall opened, to try to snazz it up a bit.

By: M

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:43:24 +0000

This could be updated — the shiny new Penney’s has been open for a while now at the site where the Ward’s was once supposed to go. The old Penney’s is currently vacant (the rumor is that they might divide it into two or three smaller stores, since it had three separate entrances).

Stores in Saratoga Mall, which I remember fondly: Ward’s (with awesome pea-soup-green shag carpet in the women’s section), Jamesway, Service Merchandise, Carl Co., a movie theater (whatever Regal used to be called, I forget now) (in the mall’s waning days, it became a discount, second-run theater for $2 a movie), Papa Gino’s pizza, Record Town (before the FYE renaming), Jo-Ann’s Nut House (candy store, moved across the road to the strip mall across from Wilton Mall), Fay’s Drugs… I forget a lot of them, but those were the biggies.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:25:39 +0000

I’m afraid I can’t tell you the heyday list, but if you’re curious on what was kicked out to make the big-box center:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010602124735/www.saratoga-mall.com/saratoga.htm

By: loveminuszero

loveminuszero — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:31:47 +0000

Does anyone remember any of the stores that were in Saratoga mall? I have always been curious to know.

By: Jonah Norason

Jonah Norason — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:26:40 +0000

Was it ever an *official* plan to connect it to Saratoga Mall? It seems like it could have been done, only if they kicked Jamesway out and relocated the Sears.